Archive for August, 2007

South Street Seaport before the National show. It was raining pretty hard—luckily I'm standing under an umbrella so effective you can drive cars on it.

Maybe one of the hardest groups to google on the entire internet, [the user] have been playing it pretty quiet lately, but Angel reminded me about them by talking about printers today.
Control to Efficiency / Efficiency / New Existential clause

Interestingly, shows that the closer to the present a film is set, the more likely it is to have co-occurring films. Also interesting is where the artist has chosen to place vaguely defined futures. Maybe she knows something we don't?

...Seriously?

"Relax in Ian's soft, thick cushions."

"An outspoken atheist, Saramago maintains that religion is to blame for most of the world’s violence. Yet in his old age he resembles nothing so much as a steely churchman from a Renaissance altarpiece, a St. Jerome in the desert."

Brand new phosphorescent, courtesy of pitchfork.

"Oh, let the rain come down / Let the wind blow through me"

This is like how they flavor soda with ascorbic acid to keep you from vomiting due to the amazing amount of sugar, only in type form and without the acid.

"Ambient Music must be able to accomodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting."

Manifestos like Cage's seem to tend to act against the expectations of more everyday futurism, which tends to predict a future like the present, only moreso, by somehow managing the feat of envisioning a future that is truly different from the present.

via leahb. I remember reading some of these essays in school and actually also learning about Aspen at more or less the same time, but I've never delved into it in the way that ubuweb's archive makes possible and to some degree demands. via leahb.

Awesome amateur aerial photography project - some really stunning results.

Gorgeous photo of wind turbines off the coast of...somewhere. via Hanks.

I like that Samuel Allen got in for the Flexible Flyer. Also, I wish I'd known this was in Akron like 3 years ago, so when I was passing through Akron I would have had something to do.

New Caribou album is out tomorrow. Nice new video featuring sort of green-screen suits and some gorgeous location work.

An excellent way to secure funding for your cogsci project is to feature it in a music video. Britt's/the robot dance army's cameos are adorable.

Many turtles in the pond in Morningside Park. They were alternately curious and camera-shy.